Extract from 1997 Country Report

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 Extract from 1997 State Department Human Rights Report 30 Jan 1998
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The list of repressive regimes that came under sharp criticism also
include those in Burma, Nigeria, Libya and Cuba.

Burmese security forces "continued to commit extrajudicial killings,
beatings and rape"; Nigeria maintained restrictions on basic freedoms
and made "no meaningful progress toward democracy"; Libya's "aging
dictatorship" survived another year "through intimidation and the
denial of basic rights"; and Syria made "scant progress" in opening up
its autocratic system.